The brutal gang rape and murder of a mentally challenged woman in Haryana's Rohtak has sent shockwaves across the town. A week after the gruesome incident, civil society members and notable faces from the city joined hands with the family to take par...

A Danish woman was allegedly gang-raped in Delhi late last night, the latest high-profile case of sexual assault in the country. The 51-year-old woman was allegedly attacked by a gang of eight men after losing her way to her hotel in Paharganj, a pop...

I protested at Raisina Hills in December along with thousands of others against the state apathy and a complete breakdown of law and order in our society which was brought to light by the Delhi gang rape. While the majority was baying for the blood o...

As investigations into the gang rape of the 22-year-old photojournalist continues, another woman has come forward alleging that the same men raped her at Shakti Mills after tying up her boyfriend with a dupatta and threatening them of dire consequenc...

A woman from Mumbai has complained that she was raped at the Shakti Mills compound in the city by five men in July. Three of her assaulters, she has alleged, are the accused arrested for raping a young photographer there last month.

The family of the 22-year-old woman photojournalist who was raped by five men in a mill in Mumbai on Thursday evening issued a statement to the media today, asking it to continue to respect the privacy of their daughter. In the statement said that th...

The father of a woman from Kerala who was abducted and raped by 42 men almost two decades ago has alleged that a church in the state has asked his family to stay away till "matters settle down." The church has however denied the allegations and dubbe...

Kolkata's joint commissioner of police (Crime) Ms Damayanti Sen has been transferred as DIG (training) to Barrackpore, a posting considered low-profile in police circles.
The transfer is being seen by some as punishment for Ms Sen who had cracked t...

A 22-year-old married woman was allegedly gang raped in Unchahar area of Rae Bareilly, Congress President Sonia Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency, by four persons, who lured her by promising a job.The victim was called to NTPC colony on Sunday to meet Ashish Mishra, who had promised her a job in NTPC,...

It is a state ruled by a woman but there is no end to crime against women in Uttar Pradesh. In yet another shocking incident, a woman was allegedly gang raped by five men who entered her house late last night.The incident happened in the Prabhapur Village of Etah district when the victim, 35-year-ol...

World News | David D Kirkpatrick, New York Times | Monday March 28, 2011

The Libyan authorities on Sunday attacked the character and credibility of a Libyan woman who burst into a hotel full of foreign journalists to say that she had been abducted and raped by militia members working for Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi, calling her "a known prostitute and a thief." The woman, Em...

The leader of a five-member gang which had allegedly abducted and raped a 30 year-old call centre employee here, was tonight arrested from neighbouring Haryana, police said. Kamru alias Mobile (25) was "arrested from Lakhuwas village in Sohna police station area of Gurgaon at...